Spectral Analysis of Aerial Light Field for Optimization Sampling and Rendering of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Abstract

The aerial light field (ALF) can render higher quality images of large-scale 3D scenes. In this paper, we apply the ALF technology to study the image captured and novel view rendering of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which exists some problems, such as large scene and depth of field. First, we design an ALF sampling model using spectral analysis of Fourier theory. Based on the ALF sampling model, the exact expression of ALF spectrum is derived. By the spectral support of ALF, we analyze the influence of pitch angle on light field sampling and its bandwidth. Particularly, the bandwidth of ALF can be applied to determine the minimum sampling rate for UAV. Additionally, we design a reconstruction filter that is related to pitch angle to render novel views of UAV. Finally, our experiments show that our sampling and rendering methods can improve the rendering quality of UAV novel view rendering.